sensitive - Story 128922 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Rain lashed against the windows of the waiting room. Amelia pressed her palms against her temples, trying to quell the throbbing behind her eyes. The sound of the downpour was an assault on her ears, a relentless drumming that mirrored the frantic beating of her heart. The sheer anticipation of the doctor's news had set her on edge, and the world was feeling like shards of glass.

A man, his face pale and drawn, sat beside her. He flinched when she accidentally knocked her knee against his. "I…" he began, his voice barely a whisper, "I have… the same thing."

Her breath hitched. She observed him carefully. The twitch in his eye, the way his knuckles were white as he clutched a medical file. She felt a wave of… something… wash over her. Not friendship, not hope. Something else.

Emotion: sensitive

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.10 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.75

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion sensitive. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 sensitive stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the sensitive emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the sensitive vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`ness`	0.304
`😞`	0.282
`😥`	0.272
`😣`	0.271
`own`	0.264

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.679
`de`	-0.660
`a`	-0.281
`"`	-0.280
`(!)`	-0.242